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Frank Zappa & Ensemble Modern - The Yellow Shark Rehearsals
Interview Dietmar Wiesner - Ensemble Modern Dozent / Ensemble Modern Tutor
Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto & Ensemble Modern - UTP
Checkpoint Ensemble Modern & Hidejiro Honjoh
Tour George Benjamin

Tour Dates

05/18/2019 - KunstFestSpiele Herrenhaus / Hanover, Germany
05/20/2019 - Museum Judengasse / Frankfurt, Germany
05/25/2019 - Festspielhaus Hellerau / Dresden, Germany
05/26/2019 - Festspielhaus Hellerau / Dresden, Germany
06/01/2019 - Centquatre, Atelier 4 / Paris, France
06/02/2019 - Centquatre, Atelier 4 / Paris, France
06/08/2019 - Veranstaltungssaal / Meersburg, Germany
06/10/2019 - Oper Frankfurt / Frankfurt, Germany
06/12/2019 - Frankfurt LAB / Frankfurt, Germany
06/14/2019 - Frankfurt LAB / Frankfurt, Germany
06/15/2019 - Frankfurt LAB / Frankfurt, Germany
06/16/2019 - Frankfurt LAB / Frankfurt, Germany
07/05/2019 - Grand Theatre de Provence / Aix-en-Provence, France
07/08/2019 - Grand Theatre de Provence / Aix-en-Provence, France
07/12/2019 - Haus der Deutschen Ensemble Akademie / Frankfurt, Germany
08/11/2019 - Theater Willy Praml / Frankfurt, Germany
08/29/2019 - Historisches Museum Frankfurt / Frankfurt, Germany
09/04/2019 - Philharmonie Berlin / Berlin, Germany
09/05/2019 - Sorlandet Art Museum / Kristiansand, Norway
09/06/2019 - TivoliVredenburg / Utrecht, Netherlands
09/13/2019 - Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen / Mannheim, Germany
09/14/2019 - He Luting Concert Hall / Shanghai, China
09/15/2019 - He Luting Concert Hall / Shanghai, China
09/16/2019 - He Luting Concert Hall / Shanghai, China
09/19/2019 - Hochschule fur Musik & Darstellende Kunst / Frankfurt, Germany
09/20/2019 - Hochschule fur Musik & Darstellende Kunst / Frankfurt, Germany
09/21/2019 - World Conference Center / Bonn, Germany
09/23/2019 - Historisches Museum Frankfurt / Frankfurt, Germany
09/26/2019 - Alte Oper / Frankfurt, Germany
09/28/2019 - Kunst-Station Sankt Peter / Koln, Germany
10/01/2019 - Stadthalle Kronberg / Kronberg, Germany
10/11/2019 - Cite de la Musique / Paris, France
1 Moggio  
2 What Will Rumi Do?  
3 Night School  
4 Revised Music For Low Budget Orchestra  
5 The Beltway Bandits  
6 A Pig With Wings  
7 Put A Motor In Yourself  
8 Peaches En Regalia  
9 Naval Aviation In Art?  
10 The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary  
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The fabulous Ensemble Modern present another all-Zappa program following up the Yellow Shark project from about a decade earlier. The main difference between the albums is that Frank Zappa died in 1993, so there are no new pieces written specifically for the Ensemble and Frank isn't conducting. Also, with the exception of an exercise entitled "What Will Rumi Do'" (which conceptually ties back to Ruth Underwood in "Don't You Ever Wash That Thing'"), all the pieces should be known to Zappa fans, who are a pretty hardcore lot. 

"The precision with which this is played is shocking and delicious!"
- Gail Zappa

1 New "ON" this week: 28 "Total Stations/Shows"
Markets include: Berkeley CA, Tuscaloosa AL, Fayettville AR, Tallahassee FL, Iowa City, Pullman WA

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